2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic

Little has been published regarding postgraduate assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need to graduate well-trained specialists including family physicians who play a key role in patient care. The successes and challenges encountered in mounting qualifying 2020 Family Medicin...

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Autores principales: Motilal, Shastri, Paul-Charles, Joanne, Asnani, Monika, Khan, Raveed, Ricketts-Roomes, Tana, Pinder-Butler, Sabriquet, Herbert, Joseph, Farquharson, Carnille, Conliffe, Catherine, Standard-Goldson, Aileen, Smith, Kristen, Morris, Euclid, Maharaj, Rohan G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Education and Learning
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8159667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-140242
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author Motilal, Shastri
Paul-Charles, Joanne
Asnani, Monika
Khan, Raveed
Ricketts-Roomes, Tana
Pinder-Butler, Sabriquet
Herbert, Joseph
Farquharson, Carnille
Conliffe, Catherine
Standard-Goldson, Aileen
Smith, Kristen
Morris, Euclid
Maharaj, Rohan G
author_facet Motilal, Shastri
Paul-Charles, Joanne
Asnani, Monika
Khan, Raveed
Ricketts-Roomes, Tana
Pinder-Butler, Sabriquet
Herbert, Joseph
Farquharson, Carnille
Conliffe, Catherine
Standard-Goldson, Aileen
Smith, Kristen
Morris, Euclid
Maharaj, Rohan G
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description Little has been published regarding postgraduate assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need to graduate well-trained specialists including family physicians who play a key role in patient care. The successes and challenges encountered in mounting qualifying 2020 Family Medicine examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of the West Indies are described in this paper. Human resource, planning, use of technology and virtual environments are discussed, which enabled successful examinations at this multicampus regional site.
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spelling pubmed-81596672021-06-02 2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic Motilal, Shastri Paul-Charles, Joanne Asnani, Monika Khan, Raveed Ricketts-Roomes, Tana Pinder-Butler, Sabriquet Herbert, Joseph Farquharson, Carnille Conliffe, Catherine Standard-Goldson, Aileen Smith, Kristen Morris, Euclid Maharaj, Rohan G Postgrad Med J Education and Learning Little has been published regarding postgraduate assessments during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is an urgent need to graduate well-trained specialists including family physicians who play a key role in patient care. The successes and challenges encountered in mounting qualifying 2020 Family Medicine examinations during the COVID-19 pandemic at the University of the West Indies are described in this paper. Human resource, planning, use of technology and virtual environments are discussed, which enabled successful examinations at this multicampus regional site. Oxford University Press 2021-05-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8159667/ /pubmed/34039692 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-140242 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
spellingShingle Education and Learning
Motilal, Shastri
Paul-Charles, Joanne
Asnani, Monika
Khan, Raveed
Ricketts-Roomes, Tana
Pinder-Butler, Sabriquet
Herbert, Joseph
Farquharson, Carnille
Conliffe, Catherine
Standard-Goldson, Aileen
Smith, Kristen
Morris, Euclid
Maharaj, Rohan G
2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
title 2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
title_full 2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
title_fullStr 2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
title_full_unstemmed 2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
title_short 2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at The University of the West Indies: successes and challenges in the time of COVID-19 pandemic
title_sort 2020 family medicine postgraduate examinations at the university of the west indies: successes and challenges in the time of covid-19 pandemic
topic Education and Learning
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8159667/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34039692
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-140242
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